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Modules Offered - Semester 2, Academic Year 2011 - 2012


Writing & Critical Thinking
| Writing & Research | Civilizational Studies | Literary Studies
Philosophical Inquiries | Society, Economy, Polity | Visual & Performing Arts | Life Sciences
Nature's Laws | Physical & Chemical Technologies | Quantitative Reasoning | Information Technologies
Information Technologies | University Scholars Seminar

 

Domain: Compulsory Area

University Scholars Writing & Critical Thinking

UWC2101N

Writing & Critical Thinking: Clothing Identities
Dr Lo Mun Hou
Exam: Nil
Gp 1: Monday and Thursday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm  (TR1)
Gp 2: Monday and Thursday 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm  (TR1)

UWC2101U

Writing & Critical Thinking: Technologies of Home
A/P Barbara Ryan
Exam: Nil
Monday and Friday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm  (TR1)

UWC2101Y

Writing & Critical Thinking:  Issues in and Around Justice
Dr Jeremy Arnold
Exam: Nil
Gp 1: Monday and Thursday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR1)
Gp 2: Monday and Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm  (TR1)

UWC2101A

Writing and Critical Thinking Module: Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism
Dr Leung Wing Sze
Exam: Nil
Tuesday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR2)
Thursday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm  (ERC_SR9)

UWC2101B

Writing and Critical Thinking Module: Civic Discourse in a Fractious World
Dr Mark Brantner
Exam: Nil
Grp1: Monday 12:00 pm – 2.00 pm  (TR2), Wednesday 12:00 pm – 2.00 pm  (TR1)
Grp 2: Monday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR2), Wednesday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR1)

UWC2101C

Writing & Critical Thinking: read Monuments, Memorials, and Commemorations
Dr Andrew Conroe
Exam: Nil
Grp 1: Tuesday 8:00 am – 10.00 am  (TR1) , Friday 8:00 am – 10.00 am  (TR1)
Grp 2: Tuesday 4:00 pm – 6.00 pm  (TR1) , Friday 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm  (TR1)


Domain: Humanities & Social Sciences

Writing and Research
UWC2102A

Writing and Research: Globalizing Food
A/P Johan Geertsema
Exam: Nil
Monday and Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm  (TR2)

This module will be classified under the HSS basket.

UWC2102B

Writing and Research: Controversies in the History of Ideas
Dr Don Favareau
Exam: Nil
Gp 1: Tuesday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (TR1), Friday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm  (TR1)
Gp 2: Tuesday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR1), Friday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm  (TR1)

This module will be classified under the HSS basket.


Domain: Humanities & Social Sciences

Civilizational Studies

UCV2207

Singapore Studies: Politics of Heritage: Singapore and the Region
Dr Patrick Daly
Exam: Nil
Lecture: Mondays 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR 1)
Tutorials:
GP 1: Wednesdays  12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (TR 2)
GP 2: Wednesdays 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (TR 2)


Human Behaviour

UHB2207

Language, Cognition, and Culture
Dr Peter Vail
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style:      Monday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm (SR2)
Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm (SR2)

 

Literary Studies

ULT2298D

Imagining War
Prof John Richardson
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style:    Monday 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm (ERC_ALR)
                            Thursday 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm (ERC_ALR)

Note: Students may take at most one module from each of the Literary Series ULT2298(X) and ULT2299(X).


Philosophical Inquiries

UPI2202

The Quest For Moral Excellence
Dr Kyle Swan
Exam: Nil
Lecture: Tuesday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (SR2)

Tutorials:
Gp 1: Thursday 8.00 am – 10.00 am (TR2)
Gp 2: Thursday 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (TR2)

UPI2206

Creative Thinking: Innovation and Deal-Making
Dr Daniela Plewe
Exam: Nil
Seminar Style: Wednesday 2:00 pm – 6.00 pm (ERC_SR11)

UPI2207

Ethics and Aesthetics: the Moral Value of Representational Art
Exam: NIL
Dr Leung Wing Sze
Seminar Style:     Tuesday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm (SR1)
Thursday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm (SR1)

UPI2208

Imagining Animals
A/P Johan Geertsema
Exam: Nil
Seminar Style: Tuesdays and Fridays 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (ERC_SR3)


Society, Economy, Polity

USE2208

Modern Cities: Problems and Perspectives
A/P Zhu Jieming
Exam: Nil
Lecture: Tuesdays 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (SR2)
Tutorials:
Gp 1: Thursday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (TR2)
Gp 2: Thursday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (TR2)

USE2209

Historicising the Black Pacific
A/P Barbara Ryan
Exam: Nil
Seminar Style:      Monday and Friday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm (SR2)

USE2304

Singapore Studies: Singapore: The Making of a Nation
Dr Quek Ser Hwee 
Exam: Nil
Lecture:  Monday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR 2)
Tutorials:
Gp 1:  Thursday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR 1)
Gp 2:  Fridays 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR 2)

USE2305

Singapore Studies: Southeast Asia: The Making of a Region
Dr Yew Kong Leong
Exam Date: Nil
Seminar Style: Tuesday and Friday 2:00 pm – 4.00 pm (ERC-ALR)

USE2306

Disasters and Responses
Dr Patrick Daly
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style:   Tuesday 4:00 pm – 8.00 pm (ERC_ALR)

USE2311

Singapore Studies: Archives, Biography, Memory in Singapore
Prof Philip Holden
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style: Monday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (SR2)
Thursday 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (SR2)


Visual & Performing Arts

UAR2201

Cyberart
Dr Daniela Plewe
Exam: Nil
Seminar Style: Thursdays 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm (ERC-SR11)

Domain: Sciences & Technologies

Life Sciences

ULS2201

The Biomolecular Revolution
Dr Uttamchandani Mahesh
Prof Paul Matsudaira
Exam Date:  Nil
Lecture: Monday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (S3-L5CR I/CR II)
Tutorials: Wednesday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (S3-L5CR I/CR II)
Lab: Wednesday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (LS Lab3 )

ULS2202

Evolution
A/P Rudolf Meier
Exam Date:  24/04/2012(Tue), 9:00 AM
Lecture: Wednesday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (SR1)
Tutorials:
Gp 1: Friday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (TR2)
Gp 2: Friday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (TR2)


Nature's Laws

UNL2201

Space, Time and Matter
Dr Rajesh R Parwani
Exam Date: 26/04/2012(Thu), 9:00 AM
Seminar Style: Tuesdays and Friday 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm (SR1)

UNL2206

Nature's Threads
A/P Ali Namazie
Exam: Nil
Lecture: Tuesdays 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR2)
Tutorials:
Gp 1: Thursday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (TR2)
Gp 2: Friday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (TR2)


Physical & Chemical Technologies

UPC2201

Chemicals and Us
A/P Lai Yee Hing
Exam: 27/04/2012(Fri), 9:00 AM
Lecture: Tuesdays 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (ERC-SR11)
Tutorials:
Gp 1: Friday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (SR2)
Gp 2: Friday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (ERC-SR11)

UPC2206

Nanoscale Science and Technology
A/P Tok Eng Soon
Exam: Nil
Lecture: Tuesdays 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (SR1)
Tutorials:
Friday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR1)


Quantitative Reasoning Foundation

UQF2101B

Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Mental Events
A/P Chua Fook Kee
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style:    Monday 8:00 am – 10.00 am (SR2)
Thursday 12:00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR2)

UQF2101C

Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: DNA Evidence in a Court of Law
A/P Yap Von Bing
Exam: NIL
Seminar Style:    Monday 10:00 am – 12.00 pm (SR1)
Wednesday 10:00 am – 12.00 pm (SR1)


Quantitative Reasoning

UQR2202

Uncertainty
A/P Choi Kwok Pui
Exam: 24/4/2012 (Tue), 1:00 PM
Lecture: Wednesday 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm (SR1)
Tutorials:
Gp 1: Monday 8.00 am – 10.00 am (TR2)
Gp 2: Monday 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (TR2)


Information Technologies

UIT2201

Computer Science & The Information Technology Revolution
Leong Hon Wai
Exam Date: 23/04/2012(Mon), 1:00 PM
Lecture: Tuesday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (SR1)
Tutorials:  
Gp 1: Friday 10.00 am – 12.00 pm (SR1)
Gp 2: Friday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (TP-SR8)


University Scholars Seminar

University Scholars Seminar

USS2105

University Scholars Seminar
Prof John Richardson
Dr Mabel Wong
Exam: Nil
Seminar Style: Wednesdays 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm (TP-GLR)

This is a module spanning two semesters (Semester 2 AY2011-12 &  Semester 1 AY2012-13) and is open to only first year students (those matriculated in 2011).


The above information is correct as at 09 Mar 2011. The University Scholars Programme reserves the rights to make changes when necessary. Please note that the above timetable is subject to changes. You are advised to check this website regularly for updates.